Matthew 5:7

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Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

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"For, if ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you;

Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow-servant, as I had mercy on you?'

And whensoever ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any; that your Father also Who is in Heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

"But love your enemies; and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and ye will be sons of the Most High; because He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

and become kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as beloved children;

Put on, therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, mild, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.

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For as ye in times past disobeyed God, but just now obtained mercy by their disobedience;

Now, concerning the virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my judgment, as having received mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

Therefore, having this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not;

though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained mercy, because I, being ignorant, did it in unbelief;

The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; because he ofttimes refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;

Let us, therefore, come with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help.

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed toward His name, in having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

For the judgment is without mercy to him who showed no mercy: mercy exults over judgment.

who once were not a people, but are now God's people; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.